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• Longevity and Elderly Health Care Expenditures.
• Rapid aging by the United States population over the next several decades is expected to have profound effects on aggregate health care costs. Health care costs are expected to increase because baby boomers will swell the number of elderly, health care expenditures generally increase with age, the elderly are living longer, and technological change will increase the cost of medicine if it continues to increase at historical rates. ... Health care expenditures depend in part on time until death, with higher expenditures prior to death, so increased longevity may merely push expenditures further into the future. ... Male longevity has increased faster than female longevity, meaning that fewer elderly are widowed, which is a major risk factor for expensive long-term care. ... In the first part of the study the investigators will analyze per person annual health care expenditures as a function of age, time until death, their interaction, insurance (FFS vs. ... The analysis will focus on total health care expenditures by all payers for elderly Medicare beneficiaries, for both standard fee-for-service and HMO beneficiaries. They will also look at three specific types of expenditures: inpatient hospital care, home health, and nursing home. ... In the second part of the study they will simulate future health care expenditures by combining our empirical results with available estimates of changes in the key parameters--mortality, functional status, other demographics, insurance, and technological change. ...
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• The Mental Health and Aging Web site will assist older adults, their families and caregivers in obtaining mental health services specific to the needs of older adults. ...
• New: New Directions in Geriatric Behavioral Health and Long Term Care October 16, 2003 more information and conference materials online.
• Our Mental Health and Aging Web site will help you:.
• Get help when navigating the mental health system .
• Gain better access to the best mental health services .
• Advocate to improve mental health services .
• Mental Health and Aging, a project of.
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• The Mental Health and Aging Web site was developed and is maintained by MasseyNet. ...

• Health Information.
• The Elderly Health Services provide primary health care to the elderly, improve their self-care ability, encourage healthy living and strengthen family support so as to minimize illness and disability.
• Public Health & Administration.
• To systematically collect and analyse information on health status of the elderly population in Hong Kong so as to provide timely health intervention programme.
• Elderly Health Centres.
• Health assessment of.
• the elderly.
• Elderly health centres provide clinic service of health assessment, physical check up, counselling, curative treatment and health education to elderly. Elderly aged 65 and above can be enrolled as members of elderly health centres. ... Enrolled members are provided with services of physical check up and health assessment, counselling, curative treatment, and health education. Health promotion and disease prevention programmes including annual health check are free of charge while curative service is charged at $45 per consultation. For those who wish to enroll as members,please call the nearest Elderly Health Centre for further information. ...
• Visiting Health Teams.
• Health talk.
• Visiting health teams reach into the community and residential care settings to provide wellness programmes to increase the health awareness of the elderly and their self-care ability. Using the train- the-trainer approach, visiting health teams also provide training programmes to carers to enhance their health knowledge and skills in caring for the elderly. ... The out-reaching service provided by visiting health teams is free of charge. ...

• EVENT TO TEACH ABOUT MEDICATIONS, ELDERLY HEALTH.
• Ansonia, CT September 28, 1999 -- A local substance abuse agency will be part of an event to offer Shelton's elderly a chance to have their medications and prescriptions checked for dangerous or unsafe combinations.
• In addition to having their medications checked, seniors can get a wide range of other health information and screenings.
• "We found a great deal of concern about elderly misuse of prescription drugs, and we think that this is a great first step to deal with the issue. ...
• She added that a poll done in the Valley in 1994 found that more than 40 percent of people surveys agreed or strongly agreed that misuse of prescription drugs by the elderly was a serious problem. ...
• It covers the towns of Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton and is a program of Birmingham Group Health Services, the Valley primary provider of mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence services.

• Elderly Mental Health Services.
• Inpatient Services - Elderly Acute Admission - Hours of Availability.
• Elderly Long Stay - Functional and Organic - Aims and Objectives; Hours of Availability.
• Elderly Acute Admission.
• The services for the elderly mentally ill aim to provide comprehensive psychiatric care, both in hospital and in the community for patients over the age of 65. Services include assessment, diagnosis and treatment, with continuing support for patients with recurrent or long-standing mental health problems. The acute admission element of the service will provide comprehensive in-patient assessment and treatment, both on an emergency and an elective basis for elderly psychiatric patients.
• Elderly Long Stay - Functional and Organic.
• The services for the elderly mentally ill aim to provide comprehensive psychiatric care, both in hospital and in the community for patients over the age of 65. Services include assessment, diagnosis and treatment, with continuing support for patients with recurrent or long-standing mental health problems. The continuing care element of the service will provide comprehensive in-patient assessment and treatment for elderly psychiatric patients.

• Elderly Health and Salaries in the Mexican Labor Market.
• Little work exists on elderly health, work and salaries in developing countries. This paper aims to contribute to this literature in the areas of health and income of the elderly. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of elderly health in the context of a developing country, Mexico,and the relationship between these health indicators and earnings in the labor market. We analyze the determinants of elderly health in Mexico, considering a number of different measures of health status, and we use these indicators to evaluate the impact of health on the income of working elderly individuals. We use the National Mexican Aging Survey of 1994, which contains detailed self-reported indicators of health as well as labor market information, to tease out these potential relationships. The results find that health measures have a strong negative effect on wages for male elderly workers. Our lowest point estimations demonstrate that poor health lowers hourly earnings by 58 percent. These are sizable effects, particularly within the context of a developing country, which does not have a universal social security system and may therefore imply that many elderly individuals work, whether or not their health level permits it. Poor health may also prevent others from working, and thereby contribute to high poverty rates among the elderly. ...

•  Senior Health > Organizations.
•  Directory > Health > Senior Health > Organizations .
• American Health Assistance Foundation - funding research on age-related and degenerative diseases, educating the public about these diseases, and providing emergency financial assistance. ...
• California Association of Health Facilities - list of licensed long term care facilities in California; all nursing homes are listed by county and city. ...
• Consumer Ombudsman Program - information on elderly health issues, and nursing homes. ...
• - comprehensive approach to long-range health; cancer research reports, philosophy, infinite survival. ...
• Health Advocates for Older People - nonprofit organization promoting better housing, health care and improved quality of life for senior citizens. ...
• National Association on HIV Over Fifty - working to promote a range of prevention, service, and health care programs for persons over fifty who are affected by HIV. ...
• National PACE Association - membership organization consisting of providers of the PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) model of care. ...
• Oregon Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance (SHIBA) - statewide network of trained volunteers who educate, assist, and serve as advocates for Medicare beneficiaries. ...
• Senior Health Foundation CyberCentral - privately funded, nonprofit organization that specializes in providing progressive senior computer education, fitness, research, advocacy and more. ...
• Seniors USA - focuses on prescription and health care reform. ...
• United Seniors Health Council - organization committed to health and independence for seniors, persons with disabilities, children, and families. ...
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• The Japanese Health Insurance System.
• The Onset of Health Care Reforms.
• Health Insurance for the Elderly.
• Health Insurance for the Elderly .
• According to estimates by the Prime Minister's Office, the elderly population, those 65 and over, stood at l8. ... Elderly medical expenses have steadily risen to 8. ... The rising cost has been the greatest factor in the decline in revenue of the health insurance system.
• Above all, the increase in cost of geriatric care is due to the rise in those elderly persons who are bedridden or senile. It is estimated that as of 1994 the number of elderly requiring nursing care was approximately 900,000. ...
• With the progressing trend toward nuclear families and women entering the work force, caring for the elderly at home has become difficult. ... The aged, who primarily require more nursing care than medical treatment, are hospitalized at hospitals for long periods of time rather than at nursing care facilities, thus accelerating the increase in medical expenditures for the elderly.
• If this continues, it will be impossible for the present health insurance system to cover the costs of medical treatment for the elderly. Therefore, The Long-Term Care Insurance Law, drawn up to be separate from the existing system, will cut the increasing costs of medical treatment for the elderly and improve the quality of elderly care.

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• Better training 'can boost elderly health' .
• Elderly people's health improves if staff are given formal training .
• They say many residential and nursing home staff only receive minimum training, despite the fact that most frail elderly people are now cared for in the community rather than in hospital. ...
• In The Lancet, they describe a small-scale study which shows vulnerable elderly people were significantly less depressed and confused after staff working with them were given six months' training. ...
• Elderly organisations say training is vital to ensure residents' needs are properly met. ...
• The residents were assessed for improvements in their health and behaviour and significant improvements were found. ...
• A spokeswoman for Age Concern said training which encouraged staff to look at the individual needs of a frail elderly person could help them to participate in activities and could improve their self-esteem. ...
• "There has been a lot of generalising that some frail or disabled elderly people may not want to participate in activities," she stated. ...
• An increasing number of elderly people are living in the community.
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• Elderly face myriad of health care options .
• MARION -- Government, social service and health management professionals have advised for years that the aging American population presents challenges too great to be downplayed. ...
• Not only is the huge baby boomer section of the population entering its sixth decade, but breakthroughs in medicine and health care have allowed their own parents to live well into their eighth decade and beyond. ...
• It is long past time for the members of those populations and those who care for them to learn everything they can about the options available, advocates for the elderly said yesterday during a conference at Tabor Academy. ...
• The event attracted nearly 100 people, including professionals who work with the elderly and elderly residents who wanted to gather information on issues they were concerned about. ...
• Advocates at the conference said elderly people, and those who care about them, need to make sure they know everything they can about issues such as Medicare, its limits and legislated premium increases; their own private health plans; what kinds of living arrangements they might want if they become widowed or fall prey to poor health, and many other considerations. ...
• Pursley, who coordinated the conference along with staff from Coastline Elderly Services Inc. , said many elderly SouthCoast residents know they can get information and answers from their local councils on aging, or at Coastline. But as more and more people join the ranks of the elderly, advocates want to make sure every one knows there is help for them. ...
• "Everyone needs access to health care. ...
• Brown, a cardiologist at Tobey Hospital, speaks during yesterday's Elderly Health Awareness Conference at Tabor Academy. ...

• Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly .
• In the middle of the 21st Century, when every one in three Japanese people is expected to reach 65 years at least, "the elderly" should be playing an active role to help the society. ...
• In the 21st Century, Japan will not be the only nation with a large population of the elderly. ...
• In the year 2000 the ratio of the elderly in Japan is expected to reach the highest level in the world, and the Long-term Care Insurance Law will be enacted. All municipalities throughout Japan have created a Health and Welfare Plan for the Elderly and a Long-term Care Insurance Project Plan in a unified manner. Health and welfare measures for the elderly are about to enter into a new phase. In order to respond to this condition, we are promoting the Gold Plan 21, which was formulated with core concepts such as building an image of the elderly with vitality. ...
• Elderly people are often viewed as weak in the society. However, in reality 80 to 90% of the elderly are living without any care or assistance. It is very important that those elderly people maintain their involvement in the society in accordance with their motivation and capability. ...
• For this reason we are organizing the National Health and Welfare Festival for the Elderly (Nenlympics = Tree-Ring Olympics), and supporting the activities to find fulfillment for the elderly and promoting their health including the activities of the Old People's Club. ...

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• Elderly health care can fall into five general categories. Some statistics deem over 93% of elderly Americans receive care services from outside and inside the home. ... The number of people who will require extra elderly care will increase in the coming years once the Baby Boomers turn silver. ...
• No matter what sort of elderly care situation you or a loved one is in, the Friendly Home Resource Centre can provide the caregiver and the elderly care patient with helpful and thoughtful items to facilitate the caregiving process.

• Papers | Articles | Software | Books | Chapters | Authors | Institutions | JEL Classification | NEP reports | Search | Viewers | New papers by email | Author registration | Top hits | Tutorial | Help! Elderly Asset Management and Health: An Empirical Analysis.
• We present models of asset management by the elderly. We focus on saving, spend-down of assets, and gift-giving, and the influence of health on these precesses. We also study the evolution of elderly health and the impact of economic variables on health outcomes. ... Our model of asset management links elderly decisions about saving, spend-down of assets, and gift-giving in a system of equations. We divide households for which head and partner (if present) are in poor health and those for which head and partner are in good health; our specification allows for differences in health to affect both the average level of economic outcomes and the marginal effects of income and wealth on the outcomes. ... Our model of health outcomes links health in the preceding period to health in the current period, allowing for three outcomes good health, poor health, or death. In our models of health outcomes we include variables measuring health in the previous period, wealth, age, education, and control variables. ... First, results for gift-giving suggest that at least some elderly do plan their estate transfer - those that have established trust funds or for which households assets exceed the estate tax filling threshold have a significantly greater propensity to give gifts. Second, the average level of gift-giving is lower for those in poor health, but the marginal effect of increasing wealth on gift-giving is much greater. This result is important in showing the ways in which health can interact with economic variables in influencing economic decision-making. ... Fifth, sudden changes in family structure and health are associated with changing patters of economic behavior - most especially, becoming a widow or widower is associated with a significant increase in the likelihood both of spending out of assets and of making gifts.
• NEP-HEA-2000-07-27 ( New Economics Papers: report on Health Economics) .

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• Elderly and Health.
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• MAJOR PROGRAMS > Elderly and Health .
• The elderly population is at high risk for illness and disability, and they are the heaviest users of health services. ... The Center's work on the elderly contributes knowledge and data to inform key policies for the older population in several areas, including improving access to acute and long-term care, enhancing the quality of medical care and prevention, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of financing care for older persons. ...
• Access is Better for Racial/Ethnic Elderly in Medicare HMOs - But Disparities Persist.
• Disability and Access to Health and Support Services Among California's Immigrant Populations.
• "Availability, Accessibility, and Acceptability in the Evolving Health Care System for Older Adults in the United States of America. " (In Spanish) Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health. ...
• " Health Affairs. ...
• "Who Switches from Medigap to Medicare HMOs?" Health Services Research. ...
• "Postadmission Disparities in Nursing Home Stays of Whites and Minority Elderly. " Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 12(3): 352-366, 2001.
• "Perceptions of Health and Utilization of Ambulatory Care: Differences Between Korean and White Elderly. " Journal of Health and Aging. ...

•     You are Here: Articles > Better Nutrition > Feb, 2002 > Article Sponsored Links Content provided in partnership with Print article  Tell a friend  Find subscription deals Probiotics boost immunity in the elderly. (health matters). ...
• Gill, and colleagues have scored another coup for dairy-cultured Bifidobacterium lactis HN019, a well-known probiotic whose Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium cousins are included in many of the probiotic products available in health-food stores.
• The results? The bad-bug-eating activity of phagocytes and the tumor-killing ability of natural killer (NK) cells were effectively improved, adding additional proof to the mounting evidence that probiotics enhance immunity--especially in vulnerable age groups, such as the elderly.
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• ELDERLY HEALTH FUND .
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• ---> College co-sponsors elderly health care center.
• Flat Hat Staff Writer Senior citizens in the Williamsburg area will soon be able to benefit from a new center devoted to improving quality of life and health care for the elderly, with the combined resources of two of Virginia's largest medical schools, health care providers and the College.
• The founding partners of the recently announced Center for Excellence in Aging and Geriatric Health include the College, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia Commonwealth University, Sentara Healthcare, Eastern State Hospital, the Peninsula Agency on Aging and the Williamsburg Crossroads Project. ...
• Grant support for the hospital has come from both the Williamsburg Community Health Foundation and the Commonwealth Health Research Board.
• With the members of the baby boom generation about to join their ranks, this age group requires a significant increase in senior health services in the near future.
• One option was the development of a Center for Excellence in Geriatric Health and Aging.
• "Originally, it had a mental health slant to it," David Finifter, dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the College, said. ...
• The goal of the Center would be to evaluate and improve services for the elderly population. ...
• "We're halfway between two large medical schools, and within an hour, smack dab in the middle of them is a very interesting elderly population," Finifter said. ...
• The first project of the center will be designing a model for services within the community to promote the health of older adults. ...
• The Commonwealth Health Research Board gave a grant of $88,250 to Finifter, which was matched by a grant of $39,750 from the College. This money will be used to develop a model for community-based senior health services.
• The developmental stages, as well as cycles of care and health patterns, will be examined.
• The results of the grant study will be presented in a conference in April, with a final report due to the Commonwealth Health Research Board June 30, 2003.
• With the Center a reality, public response has been favorable, particularly among local health care and service providers, according to Kim Van Sickle, director of Community Relations at Williamsburg Community Hospital.
• The Williamsburg Community Health Foundation.

• Elderly Asset Management and Health: An Empirical Analysis .
• We present models of asset management by the elderly. We focus on saving, spend-down of assets, and gift-giving, and the influence of health on these precesses. We also study the evolution of elderly health and the impact of economic variables on health outcomes. ... Our model of asset management links elderly decisions about saving, spend-down of assets, and gift-giving in a system of equations. We divide households for which head and partner (if present) are in poor health and those for which head and partner are in good health; our specification allows for differences in health to affect both the average level of economic outcomes and the marginal effects of income and wealth on the outcomes. ... Our model of health outcomes links health in the preceding period to health in the current period, allowing for three outcomes good health, poor health, or death. In our models of health outcomes we include variables measuring health in the previous period, wealth, age, education, and control variables. ... First, results for gift-giving suggest that at least some elderly do plan their estate transfer - those that have established trust funds or for which households assets exceed the estate tax filling threshold have a significantly greater propensity to give gifts. Second, the average level of gift-giving is lower for those in poor health, but the marginal effect of increasing wealth on gift-giving is much greater. This result is important in showing the ways in which health can interact with economic variables in influencing economic decision-making. ... Fifth, sudden changes in family structure and health are associated with changing patters of economic behavior - most especially, becoming a widow or widower is associated with a significant increase in the likelihood both of spending out of assets and of making gifts.
• and Ho, Chih-Chin, "Elderly Asset Management and Health: An Empirical Analysis" (July 2000). ...

• The Christian Health Care Center was founded in 1911 by a group of deacons from local Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches. Since that time, the Center has expanded its ministry of caring and provides a broad continuum of care to the elderly as well as mental health services in both inpatient and outpatient settings. ...

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• Prescription Drugs and the Elderly:.
• Since outpatient prescription drug use is not covered by Medicare, it is a major source of out-of-pocket expenditures for the elderly. By one estimate, severely disabled elderly persons spend more than half their out-of-pocket health expenditures on outpatient prescription drugs. What makes this financial burden all the more daunting is that half the elderly population has no insurance coverage for prescription drugs.
• For example, the Medicare Catastrophic Act of 1988, which contained a prescription drug benefit, was passed into law but repealed before it became effective, and during the health debate in 1993, administration proposals would have added the benefit to Part B of Medicare. ...
• Researchers Jeannette Rogowski, Lee Lillard, and Raynard Kington addressed these issues using data from the 1990 Elderly Health Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Begun in 1968, the PSID is a nationally representative longitudinal survey of 7,000 elderly households and 21,000 individuals; the supplement collects detailed information on health status, insurance, and health care costs.
• Among the elderly who used prescription drugs in 1990, a large fraction of drug cost (67 percent) was paid for out of pocket. As a result, the elderly spent an average of 3. ... Some elderly households, however, have much higher levels of expenditures and financial burden than others. ... 4 percent of elderly persons had total annual expenditures that exceeded $2,000, and 1 percent spent in excess of $2,000. ... Although 55 percent of elderly persons who used prescription drugs spent 1 percent or less of their household income on them, the ³tail² of the distribution is long: 7 percent spent at least 10 percent, and 1 percent spent over one quarter of their household income. ...
• Similarly, elderly persons in poor, near-poor, and low-income households have much higher levels of burden than those in middle- and higher-income households. On average, lower-income individuals have burden levels more than three times as high as middle-income elderly people and almost 10 times as high as the high-income elderly. This is related not only to income but also to the presence of private health insurance, since the likelihood of having private insurance that covers drugs rises as income rises.
• Finally, drug expenditures and burdens vary by whether the elderly have a chronic medical condition, such as diabetes. ...

• Survey of Local Government Health Promotion Policies for the Elderly .
• Funded by a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare grant for promoting the health of the elderly, the IHEP conducted a survey of local government health promotion policies for the elderly. ... Based on the results, an examination was made of the key points of health promotion policy and the issues to be addressed in order to promote health promotion measures in the community in the future. ...
• As well as steadily implementing the long-term care insurance (LTCI) system, local governments also face an urgent need to come up with new health promotion policies in line with projects such as "Healthy Japan 21" and "Gold Plan 21". ... Although local governments have to date engaged in a variety of health promotion measures in order to cope with the effects of the aging of society, these differ from municipality to municipality, and not enough is known about successful policies and the reasons therefore.
• The purpose of this study was to focus on the role and state of use of human resources (until now neglected) to determine the state of health promotion measures by local governments in Japan and to identify through case studies the results of health promotion measures and the factors underlying them, and thereby contribute to the implementation of effective health and welfare measures for the elderly. ...
• The questionnaire survey was designed to ascertain the institutional arrangements for implementation and the state of implementation of health promotion programs, the level of organization with other regions on health promotion, and the assessment of programs. ...
• The interviews were designed to identify the characteristic features of each local government and the innovations introduced, with the focus on the arrangements underlying health promotion programs, cooperation with other departments in local government, measures to enable the participation of local residents, the provision of information and promotion of public awareness, and the state of collaboration with bodies in the local community.
• Tsuyoshi Saito (Health Service Director, Fuchu Koganei Health Center, Tokyo).
• Shinji Takemura (Researcher, National Institute of Public Health Department of Public Health Administration).
• Elderly Health Section, Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly Division of the Health for the Elderly, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
• The questionnaire survey revealed a gap between urban and rural municipalities in regard to implementation of positive health programs.
• Our analysis suggested the following hypotheses: 1) the scale of administrative organization increases with the population of a local government, making cooperation with other departments on implementation of programs and collaboration with health resources in the region difficult; 2) as a consequence, local governments are more likely to pursue organized or systematic cooperation through planning the greater their population; and 3) rural municipalities are, however, involved in more cooperation in practice than urban municipalities. ...
• The interview survey confirmed the above hypotheses formulated based on the results of the questionnaire survey, and clarified points necessary to the effective promotion of health promotion programs based on actual cases.
• More specifically, the interview survey clarified the following: 1) the state of health promotion measures being pursued by urban and rural municipalities; 2) the state of collaboration with other departments and related problems; 3) the state of resident participation and related problems; 4) the proper state of information provision, including the use of information technology, and related problems; and 5) the state of assessment of projects and related problems. ...
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• Health & Fitness.
• 022100 health 5 Winterhaven News-Chief ST. ... --> Medicare cuts hurting elderly, disabled .
• Her family blames her death on legislation that cut an estimated $206 billion from Medicare, the federal program for the elderly and disabled. The cuts deemed Thomas and 5,400 other state residents ineligible for home health care.
• , a home health care business.
• Lawmakers targeted Medicare, particularly home health care, because of rapidly rising costs and concerns of fraud and abuse.
• In West Virginia, where rural life is the norm for residents struggling with poor health habits and jobs that don't provide insurance, the cuts have hit especially hard.
• In the 2 1/2 years since the Medicare cuts were enacted, West Virginia's health care industry has taken a nose-dive. Twenty home health agencies have closed, Man Appalachian Regional Hospital is on the brink of closing and a chain of nursing homes has filed for bankruptcy. ...
• The West Virginia Council of Home Health Care Agencies says the state's remaining 71 home health companies are each losing about $180,000 a year. The state's 55 county health departments have already lost $4. ...
• Beyond the closings, losses and layoffs are the faces of West Virginia's elderly. Health care professionals say many patients are discharged from hospitals too early, then end up in the emergency room because they can't get the home health services they need to recover.
• With roughly $206 billion cut from the coverage, health care advocates say that's not enough.
• Since 1997, more than 3,000 home health agencies have closed nationwide, leaving large rural areas of the country with no home health services, she said.

• Health care fails the elderly.
• Last August, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) reported that older people, in particular those on low incomes, are receiving poor health care. ...
• As a result of the lack of vacancies in aged-care facilities and nursing homes, there are more than 1200 elderly patients occupying beds in overrun public hospitals. Nursing home residents also have very limited access to dental care although they often suffer from oral health problems. ...
• ACOSS also reported a trend towards “turnstile GP visits”, where elderly patients are rushed in and out of a consultation with their doctor, increasing the potential for serious illnesses to be misdiagnosed or not recognised. ...
• A study of elderly patients who were admitted to the emergency department at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney over a one-year period found that 79% of admissions could have been avoided if the patients had been treated by a GP at an earlier date. ...
• Other problems identified by ACOSS included lack of interim care for patients waiting to access aged-care facilities, lack of rehabilitation accommodation for elderly patients and lack of home-based assistance for patients after they have received hospital treatment. ...
• On December 17, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released figures indicating 9% of nurses in aged care had ceased working in the area between 1999 and 2001. ...

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• The MRC together with the Health Departments and its partners in the Funders Forum for Ageing Research, gives high priority to research in both of these areas, with the goal of enhancing people’s wellbeing and quality of life, and so reducing the potential burden on the healthcare system. The MRC funds basic and clinical studies on healthy ageing and on the causes, prevention and treatment of a wide range of conditions that affect the elderly in particular.
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• General health of the elderly: For example, mobility problems, medical devices, incontinence and primary care.

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